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2020’s Best Advice for CFOs

CFO columnists provided an abundance of advice to finance chiefs in 2020. Here are some of the best columns we published.

Vincent Ryan
January 1, 2021
M&A

Accenture Adds Clarity Insights to AI Business

The acquisition "will fortify and broaden our ability to help our clients scale AI across their businesses."
Big Data

Execs Cop to Data Dysfunction

Two-thirds of corporate leaders prefer to rely on others for accessing and using data from their own tools.
Analytics

Salesforce to Buy Tableau in $15B Analytics Move

The acquisition combines Tableau's tools for understanding data with Salesforce's solutions for understanding customers.
Technology

A Finance Chief’s Practical View of Robotics and AI

Intelligent automation boosts both day-to-day finance functions and the quality of finance's strategic insight, says Willis Towers Watson's Michael Burwell.
IT Value

Companies’ AI Leaders Sense Competitive Urgency

Key executives at early adopters of cognitive technologies see a short time-window for honing their strategies and skills.
Technology

Companies Must Be Held Accountable for Protecting Customers’ Data: Tim Cook

Speaking at a conference in Brussels, Apple's CEO said Europe's privacy regulations should be a model for policymakers.
Analytics

Amid Data Deluge, Judgment Still Makes the Difference

No matter how much data is fed to machine learning and predictive analytics tools, the key is deciding which outputs are useful and how to act on them.
The Cloud

IBM ‘Still Has a Revenue Growth Problem’

The computing giant recorded a 2% fall in revenue for the third quarter but boosted gross margins.
M&A

Twilio Agrees to Buy SendGrid

The $2 billion deal values the Denver-based email platform company at about 10 times expected 2019 revenue.
M&A

Big-Data Rivals Cloudera, Hortonworks to Merge

The merger of equals would combine Hadoop software developers with complementary strengths in data storage, advanced analytics, and data management.
Analytics

Is Analytics the Answer?

Enterprises are hoping data analytics tools can help them identify real-time business changes, understand customers, and vanquish competitors.
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